Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ... such as California depicted as an island until the late 18th century—many of these antique maps were filled with remarkably ...

Explore the colonization of the Americas in the 18th century, a pivotal era marked by European expansion, cultural clashes, ...

Five rare Korean maps from the 18th-century atlas "Cheonhado" (Atlas of the World), once owned by a former New Zealand ambassador to Seoul, will go under the hammer in the U.K. Tuesday ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

Photo by Göran Bengtsson Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word ...